My Country ’Tis of Thee By W. E. B. Du Bois - Giggle Poems
They’ll hardly note the little changes and their feelings and your conscience will thus be saved: My country tis of thee, Late land of slavery, Of the ...
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Nocturne By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
Half steel wire, half metal wing, nothing and anything might make this noise of saws and rasps, a creaking and groaning of bone-growth, or body-death, ...
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The Tale of Sunlight By Gary Soto - Giggle Poems
When I opened the cantina At noon A triangle of sunlight Was stretched out On the floor Like a rug Like a tired cat. I poured a beer, At a table Shuff ...
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Nuit Blanche By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Ghostly and vaporous her gown sweeps by The twilight dusking wall, I hear her feet Delaying on the gravel, and a sigh, Briefly permitted, touches the ...
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Chattanooga By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Lookout Mountain To others it is an uncouth name Used only by the uncivilised Our a-historical period ...
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The Black Cock By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
He frightens all the witches and the dragons in their lair He cues the clear blue daylight and He gives the night its dare He flaps His wings for warn ...
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Old Joke By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo, with lyre in hand and golden plectrum, you sang to the gods on Mount Olympus almost as soon as you were ...
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The Best Game the Fairies Play By Rose Fyleman - Giggle Poems
The best game the fairies play, ??? The best game of all, Is sliding down steeples— ??? (You know they’re very tall). You fly to the weathercock, ??? ...
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Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll - Giggle Poems
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. And, as in uffish thou ...
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John Henry By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
When John Henry was a little tiny baby Sitting on his mama's knee, He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel Saying, "Hammer's going to be the ...
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Why We Are Truly a Nation By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
Because we rage inside the old boundaries, like a young girl leaving the Church, scared of her parents. Because we all dream of saving the shaggy, du ...
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Debridement By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
We saw no action, eleven months twenty-two days in our old tank burning sixty feet away: I watch them burn inside out: hoisting through heavy crossfir ...
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Carentan O Carentan By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan. This was the shining green canal ...
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Troop Train By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Diamonds and hearts are red but spades are black, And spades are spades and clubs are clovers—black. Trains lead to ships and ships to death or trains ...
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Journey to the Place of Ghosts By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I have earned my wine in another's misery, when rum bathed a sealed throat and cast its seal on the ground. Yet life is the invocation sealed in the c ...
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I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
One gas lamp burning near her shoulder Shone also from her other side Where hung the long inaccurate glass Whose pictures were as troubled water.
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The Stars and the Moon By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
Scaling ladders with buckets of white enamel, I painted the stars and the moon on my windowpanes to hold back days and nights.
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Zeus and Apollo By David Rivard - Giggle Poems
And if I saw fog the shade of pearls it doesn’t mean my heart in its own corrosive and healing fog can’t tug on thin leather gloves and stand in front ...
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The True-Blue American By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American, For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he must Think about everything ; because t ...
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Narcissus By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is a capital Like Rome, ruined and eternal, Marked by ...
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Karenge ya Marenge By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame for all doors shut, Yet in its like sees but imp ...
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Her Kind By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light ...
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The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War By James Doyle - Giggle Poems
marches in uniform down the traffic stripe at the center of the street, counts time to the unseen web that has rearranged the air around him, his left ...
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